12/14 speedwork

Got up early to go do speedwork, met TR at his house and ran to Root and did about 8 laps warming up waiting on CD , wasn't 7 am his idea?? We went on without him and did 8 400's all at about 1:25 per lap. Near the end we were getting hit with a light sleet while running into a very stiff wind running south. On our way home it started to rain lightly, I got home stretched a little ,took a shower and jumped back into bed for another hours sleep.

Panera 6 mile run 12/13/08

Today we had a 6.2 mile run planned from Panera. Marsha posted it on the MCRR web site and we were expecting 8-10 people and ended up having 17 people show up, 16 runners. It was a good run being that when we left our house it showed 14 degrees outside. It was high teens last weekend for our half marathon in Ashland but we would be running slower today so we dressed warm and were more than comfortable. After the run we all went inside and had hot drinks and sweet rolls/bagels for a snack in the free gathering room.
Tomorrow it is supposed to be 50 degrees, hopefully 40 in the morning. Tom R. , Chuck and I are meeting at Root at 7:30 a.m. to do speed work.

Ashland 1/2 marathon

December 6th. . . what a cold blustery day! 18 degees with a wind chill of 8 degrees! at times the snow looked as though it was falling horizontally. The first and the last miles were the worst! I warmed up after mile one and mile 13 was all into the wind. I got blisters, I don't understand! I mean I have gotten blisters before, at Akron Marathon and a few really long training runs but not in the same spots I got them this time. I wore shoes that I have been running in for a while, they have 244 miles on them. I also dealt with a major sore foot, the top of my right foot hurt during running and has hurt for the past 3 days, I haven't run since, may try tomorrow. I did well and enjoyed myself! :) I had a finish time of 1:53:53 not a PR by any means, but with the cold cold weather, the snow, the wind and oh did I mention that the entire course was uphill? ha ha but really there were many many hills! I will do it again!

November is over

Thanksgiving is over, November is over and worst of all our vacation is over. Got all unpacked and cleaned up today and then decided to go to town and park at Panera and see about a path for the group run in 2 weeks. It was about 37 degrees and some light rain but not to bad, we ran what turned out to be a perfect 10k and finishing up near the back of Walmart so we can have a short walk back to Panera. I just hope theres not any snow on the sidewalks in 2 weeks or it could be a little tricky. I can't believe tomorrow is already December first.

Ladd's own Half , Thanksgiving Day 2008

Last week , the whole week before we left for the Outer Banks I only ran 5 miles mostly because I was sick and it was pretty cold. Weeks before we were leaving for this trip we planned on running the OBX turkey trot but a month before while checking out the race we found out it was sold out for 2008 in 10 days. Maybe next year. Marsha and I ran 4 miles Sun., 4 miles Mon., 5 miles Tuesday and took Wed. off. I wanted to do a long run on Thanksgiving (in place of not running a 5k) but Marsha did a strength workout inside so I decided to go ahead and do it while the rest of the family watched the Macy's Parade. I got geared up and headed out the door with 10 miles on my mind , 5 out 5 back , when Marsha says she is taking Cassie to Walmart to get a book when I get back. Walmart is 15+ miles away and I think it's crazy to drive 30 miles to go get this book , but as I get out to the parking lot and get the GPS going I get this thought that I'll just keep running towards Walmart and they can pick me upon the way. I head out and tell them about my pace and to not let me run for more than 2 hours forgetting that heading in that direction every day so far has been into the wind. All week we headed that direction early in the morning so we could have the wind at our back on the way home and all week it was cold going out and warm after the turn around. Again it is windy and right in my face but much warmer than the morning runs , maybe getting close to 50 , I think I go out slow for a mile (but later I realize I went out at 8:15 for the first mile, not my intention) and then just run a comfortable pace. I stop at 4 miles and take a drink then stop again at 7.5 for a Gu in just over an hour , now I get to thinking I want to hit 13.1 before Marsha and Cassie find me and at 12.75 Marsha yells out the window to me and pulls over up ahead. Hardly slowing down as I toss my gloves to her and tell her to give me another half mile, long enough to finish my own Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon and walk for a short while. I finish in 1:47.30 almost to the second Marsha's PR. Time went by pretty fast for this run because I borrowed Marsha's mp3 player and had music to listen to for 1 hour and ten minutes before it went dead.

Shore to Sound

Short run this morning.... nice though. It snowed here in North Carolina 2 days ago. They are having the same cold weather we are in Ohio. Ran from the ocean to the Sound today, it was beautiful! chilly, 42 degrees, but sunny and nice. And what could be better than a run with my wonderful husband to come home cook breakfast with my son, then play fun games with my daughter for hours. Now we are off to do some shopping, imagine that.

Medina County Road Runners

We had a nice meeting tonight, which I had to lead as the president of the club wasn't able to make it. I get very nervous and felt very "hot". (Of course afterwards Ladd told me I was broken out in a rash the entire time and had some sort of facial twitch.) We had 3 possible new members and 2 new members that just joined we had 11 people all together and some very good discussions on what people really want from the group.